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Danny Danger might just be the luckiest boy alive. He's got a cosmic remote that can muck about with time, getting him into and (sometimes) out of trouble at the press of a button.

This novel tells the story of Daniel Stein, a Polish Jew who miraculously survives the Holocaust by working for the Gestapo as an interpreter. This charade not only allows him to save himself, but to help hundreds of others by sharing vital information with those in peril.

Travelling restlessly from country to country with her capricious mother, Theodora Cairns led a rootless, nomadic childhood. But at the age of 11, Theo's mother abandoned her at a boarding school. Now, 20 years later, Theo decides to track down her mother to demand answers.

They call them custard tarts - the girls who work at the Pearce Duff custard and jelly factory. But now the custard tarts are up in arms, striking for better conditions. Among them is Nellie Clark, trying to hold her family together after the death of her mother. She has the most desperate strugg...

Penny Simms is upset when a flock of foul-smelling pony vampires are found at the equestrian boarding school. They have been sent by the wicked Devlipeds to disrupt a health and safety inspection. With the help of her friends, Penny does her best to rid the school of the unwelcome guests with hil...

A murder mystery like no other, this novel features Christopher Boone, a 15 year-old who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. When he finds a neighbour's dog murdered, he sets out on a journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

Far away, in the ancient empire of Greater Fallowfields, things are falling apart. But while the kingdom drifts, awaiting the return of the young emperor, who has gone abroad and communicates only by penny post, a sinister and unfamiliar enemy is getting closer and closer.

In a city ravaged by crime and corruption, 13-year-old orphan Caw's only friends are the murder of crows he has lived with since his parents flung him from their house aged only five. Caw lives in a treehouse in an abandoned city park, surviving on scraps of food and only communicating with his t...

Nick Geddes's life is a mess. His sister's boyfriend was killed in a school stabbing. His grandmother is descending into a world of her own, his mother has a 'god-slot' on local radio, and his father is drinking way too much. But that is nothing, because he is also crazy in love with Orla, the si...

It could be the mysterious bloodstained man who tries to stop their coach, or the fact no one seems to be around at the brand-new activity centre when Lance and the rest of his class arrive for the Year 6 school trip, but something is definitely not right at Crater Lake! What follows is a fight f...